#BREAKING_NEWS from #COSP16 🇬🇧 gov announce new £31M investment in #AT2030 programme to deliver #WhatWorks to improve access to #AssistiveTechnology for people with disabilities. WATCH 👇 from 🇬🇧 Minister of State for #Development Andrew Mitchell Global Disability Innovation Hub 💜 World Health Organization (WHO) Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office #talkAT

nobody's get less of that dog in em than me i can tell you that

Space job!

Great start to AAATE: 45+ countries represented in Paris to share research and foster collaboration for the advancement of assistive technologies. To kick things off, Tiago Guerreiro ⚔️ on his work at Univ. de Lisboa & w/ Tech&People Lab @ ULisboa 👏🏻 #TechForGood #datapolicy w/샤리스 Johnson

Coming up next month is 2/3 projects we are doing on air pollution policies. This Imagination Lab will be on how to abolish "Right to Pollute Policies" by moving towards "Right To Exist Policies" (thanks to 샤리스 Johnson for the term).

Petition: Find time to take the Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill through the House of Commons petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6393…

By focusing on bias within technology, we risk setting the success criteria as accurate tools of oppression, whereas we should be asking "do we want these tools of oppression in the first place?" Great to discuss this w/ ruchowdh.bsky.social Follow @ODET_UN for the latest updates & All Tech Is Human in NYC last week.

🚨 JOB Come join our team The Royal Society! We're recruiting a Senior Programme Manager for a 9-month maternity cover post. It's an important role working closely with the Science Policy senior leadership team & exposure across all our workstreams. 👇🏾 careers-royalsociety.icims.com/jobs/1698/seni…

Excited to see details of our plans ahead of the Global AI Safety Summit start to emerge... Here's one of the activities we're organising The Royal Society: a joint workshop with Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on horizon scanning AI safety risks across scientific disciplines. 👇🏾

Are you a graduate student working on #ClimateChange or #epidemiology? We're holding an event on 25 October to test the disinformation guardrails of an open-source large language model (LLM). Find out more and register now: royalsociety.org/science-events…

This post from 2021 recently liked seems v relevant to a comment by Areeq Chowdhury - voters don't go to their reps about "AI", they ask for solutions to dampness and bad jobs and energy costs. Which AI can help with.Are these not the problems the "AI Summit" should be about?? 🤔

Yesterday at the @RoyalSociety we spoke with leading scientists on the transformative power of AI in accelerating drug discovery and how we can ensure this technology is developed responsibly. Their insights will help inform discussions at the upcoming #AISafetySummit.

🚨 NEW IMAGINATION LAB We gathered people w/ backgrounds in racial injustice, policy, law, +Turtle Island Knowledges to discuss + delve deep into the knowledge roots that bind us to supremacy. @PatrickWillia17/샤리스 Johnson/Grace L. Carson/Guppi Kaur Bola // ਗੁਰਪ੍ਰੀਤ ਕੌਰ ਬੋਲਾ urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbo…

In case anyone cares, I'm going to attempt to use this site again.

Delighted to share that I will be speaking at #CheltSciFest on "The Future of Space" on Thurs 6th June, sharing the stage with Astronaut Tim Peake and UK Space Agency's Prof Anu Ohja OBE, expertly chaired by Dallas Campbell. More info below!🚀🌌🛸👩‍🚀 Satellite Applications Catapult HyPIR at Leicester

Very timely report from The Royal Society A must read for anyone interested in the future of science and scientific method in the age of AI

At our event earlier this year celebrating the 50th anniversary of the internet, Dr Vint Cerf ForMemRS, known as one of the 'fathers of the internet', spoke about what is needed to make digital technology more accessible: #InternationalDayOfPersonswithDisabilities

If you'd like to learn more about what the data policy team is doing on digital assistive tech, I'm happy to tell you all about it!

✨#SpaceJob✨ Some exciting/scary news - all being well I'll be heading off on #MaternityLeave in April!🐣 This means that Satellite Applications Catapult is recruiting for a 13-month Space Ecosystem Manager cover: ideally start date in March. This could be you! 👇 app.beapplied.com/apply/fp87eigm…